Healthcare Startup 'Wicomet' and Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital CPR Contest

Over 60 Medical Staff and Employees Participate
CPR and AED Training and In-House Competition

CPR education startup Wicomet announced on the 11th that it held a CPR contest in collaboration with the Catholic University Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital to commemorate Patient Safety Day.

The CPR contest held on the 8th at Catholic University Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital was attended by about 60 participants, including general staff and nursing medical personnel of Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital.

At this event, before the CPR contest, Wicomet conducted necessary theoretical education and practice for emergency medical situations through the CPR education service ‘Braden Online’ and the educational automated external defibrillator (AED) ‘IT23’ released this year.

‘Braden Online,’ which solves the difficulties of large-scale group training and can be used according to the practice environment, connects up to six mannequins to a mobile app to provide real-time feedback on performance, monitoring, and learning evaluation with scores, offering improved CPR training results. The IT23, a product applying optical sensing technology, is characterized by its realistic and immersive education possible through app integration.

Lee Jung-hoon, CEO of Wicomet, said, “We hope that CPR education, which saves precious lives, will become more active in Korea,” adding, “We plan to actively support it so that it can become essential education in medical institutions as well as companies and government offices.”